Gain critical insights to craft ambitious solutions and shape health care globally with comprehensive 9-month global modular program taught by Harvard Medical School faculty. Stay ahead in healthcare industry with a deep understanding of current medical practices, regulatory landscape, innovations and the latest advances in digital technologies.
Program Benefits
After completion of the GHLP, you will be a part of a global cohort of health care leaders. You will become an integral part of the Harvard Medical School Executive Education network. You will also be able to join Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) as an associate member and become a part of an active global network connecting with and supporting each other, facilitating lifelong learning, growth, and success. Following are some of the key benefits*:
- Global Health Care Leaders Program Certificate from Harvard Medical School.
- Join an extraordinary global network of 10,000 Harvard Medical School and 300,000 Harvard alumni and associate members from more than 200 countries.
- Connect and network with alumni and associate members through the Harvard Alumni Directory (accessed through claiming a Harvard Key login, which is the University’s lifetime electronic security credential).
- Connect further by joining one of the 195+ Harvard Clubs in more than 70 countries throughout the world, or one of more than 50 Shared Interest Groups (SIGs)**. Learn more
- Network at one of the Harvard Alumni Association’s many events held worldwide.
- Access to HAA message boards to communicate about a variety of topics, including career networking, via the Alumni Directory.
- Access to digital subscriptions of the Harvard Magazine e-newsletter Editor’s Highlights and the Harvard Medicine Magazine.
- Access to Electronic Library Resources – Harvard Library has curated a selection of online resources that reflect the breadth of intellectual content the University has to offer.
- Ability to apply for borrowing privileges for Harvard Library (separate application process).
- Access to the GHLP LinkedIn group.
- Access to select Harvard Medical School events, conferences and seminars.
- Access to select Harvard Medical School online publications and webinar series.
- Gain exceptional rewards and benefits with the Harvard Alumni World MasterCard® – The card features no annual fee, no foreign transaction fees, and best-in-class rewards. Proceeds support the Presidential Scholars Program. (Available to US participants only.)
- Develop a global network of industry colleagues.
- Understand major forces shaping the future of healthcare.
- Review the perspectives of diverse sectors in the industry.
- Master the skills and capabilities necessary to lead effectively in the new healthcare environment.
* Benefits are subject to change
** Clubs and SIGs independently set their own membership criteria and have specific policy for Associate Members
INDUSTRY-RELEVANT CURRICULUM
GHLP will incorporate interactive, case-based classroom sessions, immersive exercises that illuminate the challenges of health care, and visits to research labs, innovative organizations and other key components of the innovation ecosystem in Boston. These in-person experiences will be supplemented by live virtual sessions and other curated resources at the beginning of the program and between in-person sessions.
Additionally, each participant will identify and work on a project which documents an innovation or process improvement that they will work to implement upon their return to their home countries and home institutions.
The program will focus on following key themes:
Business and science leaders must operate at the complex intersection of trends that are disrupting legacy business models and possess a comprehensive understanding of the health care ecosystem. This is critical for their innovations to succeed and to fulfill important previously unmet needs of patients, providers or payers.
- Experiences of patients and caregivers, and how patient experiences reveal unmet clinical needs and inspire avenues for research discovery
- How doctors think: The culture of medicine and patient-doctor interaction
- Changing makeup of care teams and care coordination
- Perspectives from health care in different contexts, from academic medical centers and community to underserved populations
- Pain points and threats to traditional care delivery models
- Population health management to maximize value
- Genetics and precision medicine in clinical practice
Case studies of health care innovation reveal how the broader health care ecosystem plays a critical role in the sustainable adoption of innovations. Whether one works in care delivery, biotech, pharma, medical devices or health care IT, innovators need to account for the needs and perspectives of patients, care teams, enterprise purchasers and payers to make new products successful.
- A framework for systematic innovation, from ideation to implementation
- Understanding stakeholder perspectives across the health care ecosystem to optimize your chances of success
- How to maintain a focus on patient-centricity that is integral to strategy and innovation
- How to understand and leverage behavioral economics to effect change
- How hospital and system leaders set priorities, navigate industry transformation, and support innovation
Digital transformation lags in health care compared to other industries such as consumer retail, travel and banking. Nevertheless, digital tools hold great potential for health care, as AI and other technologies are applied to patient experience, disease diagnosis and management, care delivery and the development of new therapeutics. HMS researchers and clinicians are at the forefront of applying these technologies and understanding both where opportunity lies and where the hardest problems remain.
- A framework for digital transformation – why some transformations succeed while others fail, and how leadership contributes to successful transformation
- Digital apps, wearables and telehealth: use cases for how digital tools can improve patient access, provide algorithmic disease management, improve adherence, and facilitate smooth transitions of care
- Case vignettes from different countries on digital health initiatives and lessons learned
As health care costs strain budgets, new approaches to pricing and reimbursement for care delivery and therapies have profound implications. Health care delivery is also struggling with longstanding issues like unequal access, administrative burden and workforce burnout.
- A framework to understand similarities and differences across health systems in different countries
- The current and future state of reimbursement: implications for patients, providers and payers
- New approaches to developing a value argument for health care innovations, and navigating access and reimbursement
- Outcome and treatment disparities: challenges in caring for diverse patient populations
Innovation is increasingly becoming a multidisciplinary enterprise, whether in transnational companies or local start-ups, and across the many sectors of the health care ecosystem. Leaders must navigate the complexities presented by competing priorities and internal cultures in pursuit of excellence in innovation.
- Leading change management initiatives
- Understanding different modes of leadership that balance organizational learning, exploration and execution
- Attracting, retaining and empowering talent
- Managing multi-disciplinary teams across functional silos
Participant Experience
Reflecting on learning and growth, I look forward to reuniting with my GHLP friends and colleagues as we continue to change the healthcare ecosystem.
Tarul Kode
Vice President, Senior Pharmacy Benefits Consultant, Segal
I’m enjoying every moment of the learning experience. I can’t wait to give back to the health care community after completing the Global Health Care Leaders Program.
Constanza Pierre
Regional Healthcare Director, Legend Senior Living™
I am especially grateful for the time spent learning about innovation at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Digital Innovation Hub as well as advances in medical stimulation from the SIMPEDS program at Boston Children’s Hospital.
Njide Okonjo-Udochi
Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Summit Medical Group
Proud to have completed my learning journey with the leaders, innovators, authors and entrepreneurs of the HMS GHLP class of 2022. It has been an amazing experience for me to learn from the professors and my classmates. I have built connections and relationships with everyone from the class.
Stephen Feng
Senior Director, Omnichannel International Business Unit, Eli Lilly and Company
CLASS PROFILE
The Global Health Care Leaders Program participants represent a diverse group of high potential leaders and senior executives with global aspirations. Participants bring in a rich mix of experience in functions and verticals in knowledge-driven industries and sectors.
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